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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Agnes de Mille

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Agnes de Mille
Age: 88 †
Born: 1905
Born: September 18
Died: 1993
Died: October 6
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Dancer
Theatrical Director
Harlem
New York
Freedom
True
Play
Childish
Constitutes
Dance

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Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
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I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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